There is no voice in all of popular music that we love more than that belonging to Cowboy Junkies singer Margo Timmins.
It’s one that conveys so many shades of emotion and mood — from quiet desperation and resigned sadness to burning passion and, on the rare Cowboy Junkies recording, unbridled joy. It comes across as fragile and oh-so-very human in one moment, then bold, big and otherworldly in the next.
And, above all else, it’s always beautiful.
It’s a voice that fans first latched onto in the late ’80s, thanks to the landmark folk-pop-country-blues outing “The Trinity Session,” which carried with it the Cowboy Junkies’ startlingly different and impactful version of the Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane.”
It’s a voice that has continued to speak to listeners — through the words that her brother Michael writes — on such stellar albums as 1996’s “Lay It Down,” 2007’s “At the End of Paths Taken” and, most recently, 2023’s “Such Ferocious Beauty.”
And it’s a voice that fans will get to enjoy once again as the vocalist and the rest of the brilliant Cowboy Junkies — guitarist Michael Timmins, drummer Peter Timmins and bassist Alan Anton — perform three shows in Northern California.
The Cowboy Junkies perform at 8 p.m. June 18 at the Freight in Berkeley ($59-$64); 7:30 p.m. June 19 at Uptown Theatre Napa (tickets start at $46); and 8 p.m. June 20 at the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley ($67-$77). Visit cowboyjunkies.com for details/links for all shows.
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